The SAMHSA Model Programs featured on this site have been tested
in communities, schools, social service organizations, and workplaces
across America, and have provided solid proof that they have prevented
or reduced substance abuse and other related high-risk behaviors.
Programs included have been reviewed by SAMHSA's National Registry
of Effective Programs (NREP). This Web site serves as a comprehensive
resource for anyone interested in learning about and/or implementing
these programs.

The Maryland Blueprints web site is designed to help community
planning groups select youth-focused prevention programs based on their
individual goals and objectives. The programs included in this site have
been shown by research to reduce or prevent substance use/abuse, crime,
delinquency and/or anti-social behavior.
The selected programs were identified by a committee of three nationally
recognized experts on substance abuse and delinquency prevention research
and evaluation – Denise Gottfredson, University of Maryland,
College Park; Mark Eddy, Oregon Social Learning Center; and Richard
Spoth, Iowa
State University. The committee spent more than 18 months reviewing
existing prevention research to identify effective research-based programs.
Committee
members continue to review new national and local research to identify
additional programs and appreciate all suggestions for programs to
review.

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for your search).

Based on a three-year study funded by the Institute of Education
Sciences (IES) and the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS)
in the U.S. Department of Education, Safe and Sound is the most
comprehensive and inclusive guide to Social-Emotional Learning
(SEL) programming available. This guide provides a road map for
schools and districts that are launching or adding social, emotional,
and academic learning programs. The guide reviews 80 multiyear,
sequenced SEL programs designed for use in general education classrooms.
Among these programs are both comprehensive and more narrowly focused
programs, such as drug education or anti-violence programs, that
can be combined with others. Safe and Sound also offers guidance
to educational leaders on how to integrate normally isolated or
fragmented efforts with other school activities and academic instruction
by providing a framework for “putting the pieces together.”